Tim

What's the latest of being able to exclude sessions from this count?

Roy Lambert

Roy,

<< What's the latest of being able to exclude sessions from this count? >>

Still there on the list.  I'm pushing things out as fast as they will go
(Free Pascal is fighting me every inch .  The main gotcha with this
feature is making sure that it is disabled for non-CS versions.  IOW, it has
to be tracked for *your* count, but it must be excluded for *our* count that
determines whether someone has hit the max 5 or 3 session limit for the STD
and TRIAL versions.  This is not a simple thing, unfortunately.

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Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Tim


Would it be easier to reintroduce semaphore flags? The main reason for this was to allow me to track users which I used to use semaphore flags for.

Roy Lambert

Roy,

<< Would it be easier to reintroduce semaphore flags? The main reason for
this was to allow me to track users which I used to use semaphore flags for.
>>

No, it would not be easier to reintroduce semaphore flags.

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Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Tim


OK, any other suggestions for a "soft lock" in f/s mode? What I don't really want to do is to write something into a table, or set a record into edit and leave it that way for the duration.

Roy Lambert

Roy,

<< OK, any other suggestions for a "soft lock" in f/s mode? What I don't
really want to do is to write something into a table, or set a record into
edit and leave it that way for the duration. >>

Is this to try and replicate the LicensedSessions functionality that you
want ?

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Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Tim


><< OK, any other suggestions for a "soft lock" in f/s mode? What I don't
>really want to do is to write something into a table, or set a record into
>edit and leave it that way for the duration. >>
>
>Is this to try and replicate the LicensedSessions functionality that you
>want ?

Partially. The main reason for the request on LicencedSessions was so that they could be ignored for threads. This was partly motivated by a need to find a substitute for semaphore flags used to restrict logons but also because an app spawning several threads all with their own session could clobber the allowed sessions count rather nastily.

I've been doing some web research and I may have found something. Not sure yet cos I won't get time to test until the weekend.

Roy Lambert

Tim

The thing I was trying didn't work.


Roy Lambert

Tim


I might have something - byte lock the directory. What's your take on that?

I know I can't byte lock any of the table or catalog files, but the directory seems to work.

Roy Lambert

Roy,

<< I might have something - byte lock the directory. What's your take on
that? >>

How are you going to know which bytes to lock for each session ?  Or do you
only want an exclusive lock ?

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Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com